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I know we all love to be macho about this but here is your permission not to have to: If you’re cold, you can turn on the heat. My heat is on. It’s fine

Here’s an article we released yesterday on the prediction markets, anticipating their role in election rumors. bsky.app/profile/kate...

Our $2M investment in the Sea Cliffs Exhibit Renovation Project has gotten a pretty clear seal of approval.

One of my friends at the mosque says everyone there did early voting because it seemed less dangerous. I can't say he was wrong, but it was heartbreaking.

The pettiest hill that I will die on is that if your cool character in a historical novel is rolling their eyes at social conventions, no they're not, eye-rolling didn't become a widely described gesture in English literature until the *1980s* books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

Help support former HOURCAR staff! "As of Oct. 17, all HOURCAR staff are out of a job; none will be paid severance, nor are they eligible for COBRA. This fund creates an emergency financial cushion for those who were paid below living wage." @hourcar.bsky.social gofund.me/1bfa7a4aa

“Election workers care for the voting process. Our chaplains care for the people moving through it"

I'm just going to take you guys through my new sewing room, because I want everyone to see it. Let me start with the sink. It's cute. I like it. #Sewing #DIY

Huh. There are a lot of confounding variables (like I'm less stressed when I earn money) but I think going on teeny tiny doses of blood pressure meds has reduced my number of migraines.

A story of the trans community's resilience and expanding cultural relevance, even as our lives are threatened by the fascist political movement that made us enemy #1. Don't miss this, from @c-cauterucci.bsky.social, on @slate.com slate.com/life/2026/10...

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” — KURT VONNEGUT

In 2024, Lakeshore Care submitted an application for what was called a emergency shelter w/ 24 beds for those recovering from illness/medical procedures. It faced strong opposition with public safety concerns and drug use. Application was withdrawn. Instead, the building will now just sell drugs.

Get your pumpkin carving kit *now* before it's later tonight and you convince yourself a steak knife will work just fine, but it won't and you'll be posting on Bluesky saying, "I just lacerated myself carving a pumpkin. CPSC is going to be so disappointed in me :( "

You don’t have to be particularly woo to sense something haunted here: A disproportionate amount of death has taken place on this land. www.coyotemedia.org/oak-knoll-ha...

I know I'm adjacent AF but I couldn't imagine living every day like this. Y'all truly god's strongest soldiers.

Wait WHAT

i loled

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

I really like the point made here: Dems should be making a public case right now for novel tactics like defunding Trump's corrupt prosecutions, to make them more intelligible later:

If you are an Oregonian, you are required by law to see Wildwood. It is your new Goonies.

Gift link to share with your undecided Hennepin County friends: racketmn.com/dont-fall-fo...

Oh, this is a loss. I really rely on ROW to keep me from losing any connection to the non-American experience.

When my mother turned 70, back in 2017, I made a list of 70 things I loved about her. Seventy

Behold, my son the disco ball 🎃

The fact that DORA is pausing (stopping? Canceling?) its annual survey is so interesting to me. I wonder if we are moving out of the aggregate Annual Report, Acronym Frameworks era in devex

Haven’t seen anyone point out that, for the Ghost Rider announcement, Ryan Gosling was dressed like James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause (a movie where James Dean does not ride a motorcycle), which also means Gosling was dressed as Philip J. Fry.

I love a good random conversation about movies. Blew someone's mind by saying there's actors who are good at Batman and some who are good Bruce Waynes but not that often you find one who's both. Keaton, good Batman. Kilmer, good Wayne Bale, better Batman ok Wayne Clooney, probably Wayne¹

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

What is true is that this was a conflict—and make no mistake, this was a conflict; this was a protracted battle in a hybrid war, more than anything—that was largely fought by large numbers of people laboriously working to unfuck the nation's informational environment.

let's fucking go

We won not only against Bolsonaro, but against the full force of the USian's Big Techs, Meta, CIA, Trump, the Brazilian right-wing elites, the billionaires' press and more.

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

This is really the thing. If saying nice things about your child is hard, you need to practice. By saying nice things about your child. To your child. I have not always been confident in how others see me. But I’ve always had a good self-image, in part because my mother did this. Often.

wellstone was the first politician i ever got to volunteer for. people love to quote “we all do better when we all do better” but i try to live by this one: “If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”

When Democrats do well this fall, we’re going to see a lot of “strategists” trying to take credit for their approach. The trans panic people have been nothing but a drag on Democratic momentum and they need to fuck off into the sun

In their quest for velocity, managers identified a critical bottleneck: themselves. Now they are automating away the very work of leadership - determining what is most valuable to work on, and aligning everyone around those goals. The result: worse outcomes, delivered faster than ever before.

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